ZA3938: Eurobarometer 60.1 (Oct-Nov 2003)

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Abstract

Standard questions of Eurobarometer. Citizenship and feeling of
belonging. Traud and tax fraud. European Parliament.
Topics: Satisfaction of interviewees with their present life, whether
they attempted to persuade others close to them to share their views on
subjects they held strong opinions about, whether they discussed
political matters, and what the European Union´s priorities should be.
Additional questions focused on the respondents´ knowledge of and
opinions about the European Union (EU), including sources of
information about the EU and whether their country had benefited from
being an EU member. Respondents were asked questions concerning
citizenship and their overall feeling of belonging, such as what was
most important to them: family, friendship, work, the arts/culture,
politics, health, or money. Respondents were asked how important the
following values were to them: rule of law, respect for human life,
human rights, individual freedom, democracy, tolerance, peace, or
solidarity. Respondents were asked if they agreed that the State
intervened too much in their lives, criminals needed help and
understanding, immigrants were a threat to their way of life, economic
growth must be a priority even if it affects the environment, and that
free competition was the best guarantee for economic prosperity.
Respondents were also asked if they´d be willing to learn one or more
foreign language and what would be the motivation for doing so (i.e.,
to use on holidays abroad, to get a better job, to be able to
understand people from other cultures, or for personal satisfaction),
if they´d be interested or involved in the sports, arts and culture,
music, and lifestyles of other countries in the EU and in countries
outside of the EU, toward which country they felt the greatest
affinity, whether the United States and the EU played a positive or
negative role regarding peace in the world, fighting terrorism, growth
of the world´s economy, the fight against poverty in the world, and the
protection of the environment. Additional questions focused on fraud
and whether respondents had read or seen anything about fraud, tax
evasion, money laundering, or counterfeiting of goods in their country,
in other countries of the EU, in the countries which are candidates to
join the EU, or elsewhere in the world. Respondents were asked what
type of fraud worried them the most (e.g., hacking, pirating software,
illegal data trading, counterfeiting of goods, commercial fraud like
cheating on prices, weights, and goods, customs fraud, VAT fraud, or
misappropriation of aids and grants), how well the media informed those
in the EU about various types of fraud in the other countries of the EU
as well as in their respective country, and whether using the police
force, customs services, taxation authority, courts, private auditing
firms, or the media was the most effective way to fight the EU and its
budget from being defrauded. Respondents were also asked questions
regarding the European Parliament, specifically how many European
Parliament elections they voted in and if they were going to vote in
the next one, how much impact the European Parliament had on their
everyday lives, and whether the European Parliament election campaign
should mainly focus on agriculture, environment, employment,
immigration, education, foreign policy, enlargement of the EU, or the
rights of the EU citizen. Those queried were also asked if they were
interested in knowing more about the European Parliament whether via
the television, radio, Internet, or newspapers.
Demography: Gender, age, marital status, level of education, current
occupation, household income, who contributed most to the household
income, whether the respondent resided in a rural area or village, a
small town, or a large town, and how much toward the left or right did
the respondent consider their political views.

A multi-stage sampling design was used for this Eurobarometer. In the
first stage, primary sampling units (PSU) were selected from each of
the administrative regions in every country (i.e., Statistical Office
of the European Community, EUROSTAT regions). PSU selection was
systematic with probability proportional to population size, from
sampling frames stratified by the degree of urbanization. In the next
stage, a cluster of addresses was selected from each sampled PSU.
Addresses were chosen systematically using standard random route
procedures, beginning with an initial address selected at random. In
each household, a respondent was selected, by a random procedure. Up to
three recalls were made to obtain an interview with the selected
respondent. No more than one interview was conducted in each household.
Separate samples were drawn for Northern Ireland and East Germany.

Errata & Versions

2010-4-13 Version number created automatically (implementation of a uniform versioning policy) https://doi.org/10.4232/1.3938 (Publication Year unknown)

Errata in current version

Date

Subject

Description

2016-4-22

v662: P7 REGION I - SWEDEN

Variable documentation error: REGION I for SWEDEN does not represent NUTS 2 level, but is based on six historical provinces and large city areas.

Version changes

Changes between version 1.0.1 and it's previous version

Date

Subject

Description

Correction Description

2011-7-1

ISOCNTRY

alphanumeric country id variable

2011-7-1

variable added

2011-7-1

VERSION

dataset version id variable

2011-7-1

variable added

Further Remarks

Notes

The regular sample size (in the sense of completed interviews) is 1000
respondents per country, except the United Kingdom with separate
samples for Great Britain (1000) and Northern Ireland (300), Luxembourg
(600) and Germany with separate samples for the Eastern and the Western
part (1000 each). Effective number of realised interviews in this
round: France 1015, Belgium 1022, Netherlands 1006, Germany-West 1016,
Germany-East 1023, Italy 1008, Luxembourg 587, Denmark 1000, Ireland
1014, Great Britain 1055, Northern Ireland 307, Greece 1001, Spain
1000, Portugal 1000, Finland 1018, Sweden 1000, Austria 1010.
The questions on social value, participation and interests have also been asked in the context of Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.5 (ZA4240); other items have been paralleled in Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.4 (ZA3986).

Number of Units:

16082

Number of Variables:

688

Data Type:

-

Analysis System(s):

SPSS, Stata

Publications

Publications

European Opinion Research Group (EEIG): Eurobarometer 60.
Public Opinion in the European Union. Autumn 2003.
Brussels: February 2004.
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb/eb60/eb60_en.htm

European Opinion Research Group (EEIG):
Special Eurobarometer 200 - Wave 60.1. Attitudes related to
defrauding the European Union and its budget. Public Opinion
in the member states.
Brussels: January 2004.
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_200_en.pdf

European Opinion Research Group (EEIG):
Special Eurobarometer 199 - Wave 60.1:
Citizenship and Sense of Belonging.
Brussels: February 2004.
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_199.pdf

Groups

EB - Standard and Special Eurobarometer
Since the early nineteen seventies the European Commission´s “Standard and Special Eurobarometer” are regularly monitoring the public opinion in the European Union member countries at times. Interviews are conducted face-to-face, in each spring and each autumn, at all times based on new samples with a size 1000 respondents per country. Separate samples are drawn for Northern Ireland and East Germany. After the EU enlargement in 2004, remaining and new Candidate Countries are also regularly included in selected surveys. The Standard Eurobarometer modules ask for attitudes towards European unification, institutions and policies, complemented by measurements for general socio-political orientations, as well as by respondent and household demographics. Intermittently special Eurobarometer modules extensively address topics, such as environment, science and technology, health or family issues, social or ethnic exclusion, quality of life etc. The “European Communities Studies” 1970-1973 can be considered forerunner studies, as well the “Attitudes towards Europe” from 1962.